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Title: Letter to Villiaumé Author: Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Date: July 13, 1857 Language: en Topics: letter, Libertarian Labyrinth Source: Retrieved on 26th April 2021 from https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/featured-articles/proudhon-to-villiaume-july-13-1857/ Notes: Working translation by Shawn P. Wilbur.
My dear Villiaumé, it is too warm for me to venture, with my sick head,
all the way to Rue Marsollier. I am thinking instead of fleeing for ten
or twelve days to some hole in Franche-Comté, where the devil may
perhaps not come to torment me with his pomps and work.
But you, who are spry, come some evening after your dinner and we will
have a mug at the local cabaret, which will do you as much good as an
ample banquet. Friendship, and understanding as well, is surely found in
a modest to your health.
I regret to learn of the illness of BĂ©ranger, whom I have not seen.
I had intended to pay tribute to him this year with a copy of my next
book: it is an honor that will be denied me.
It occurs to me that I have known hardly any of the distinguished men of
the century: Châteaubriant, P.-L. Courier, Jouffroy, Cousin, Nodier, E.
Burnouf, Guizot, Thiers, Barrot, Royer-Collard, Lamartine, A. de Musset,
A. de Vigny, BĂ©ranger. Lamennais, Arago, etc., etc.
With those few that I have encountered, I have had to do battle: P.
Leroux, L. Blanc, V. Considérant; there will be others.
Am I not the excommunicated of the era!
Of course I will have no one at my burial. There is a proverb that says:
Vœ soli!… Woe to the loner!… thinking of it, I ask myself if I do not
drag along the chains of some great culprit condemned in a former
existence, as J. Reynaud teaches?
I begin to be very weary of life and seek only to speak my piece before
I die. That done, I say: To hell with me and the human race! Regards.
P.-J. Proudhon